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Ten Skiers Score NJ Lift Tickets After Perfectly Reciting Gettysburg Address Ten Skiers Score NJ Lift Tickets After Perfectly Reciting Gettysburg Address
Ten Skiers Score NJ Lift Tickets After Perfectly Reciting Gettysburg Address Knowing the Gettysburg Address can help you ace history class and also hit the slopes for free in New Jersey. Ten people were able to recite the famous speech from memory on Monday, Feb. 12 and earn free lift tickets to Mountain Creek in Vernon, the ski resort confirmed. The annual event, which celebrates the 16th president's birthday (215 years young!) was held Joe C's Cafe in the Red Tail Lodge at the resort Lincolnheads were required to recite the 272-word two minute speech, delivered on Nov. 19, 1863 at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery, without headphones, airpods or a…

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by Sam Barron
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Injured EMT Settles Suit Against Mountain Creek For $1.75 Million Injured EMT Settles Suit Against Mountain Creek For $1.75 Million
Injured EMT Settles Suit Against Mountain Creek For $1.75 Million An EMT who was injured in a fall while working at Mountain Creek reportedly settled a lawsuit against the resort for $1.75 million. Frank Villecco was working for Atlantic Health, which provided emergency medical services to the Vernon Township resort, when he slipped on water while bringing an injured skier into a medical room in March 2013, New Jersey Law Journal reported. Villecco suffered a herniated disc, which required fusion surgery, a spinal cord stimulator implant and pain medication for what became a chronic condition, his lawyer said. He sued Mountain Creek for not removing the …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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WINTER BLUES? Mountain Creek Offers Timely Break From Cabin Fever, COVID-19 WINTER BLUES? Mountain Creek Offers Timely Break From Cabin Fever, COVID-19
Winter Blues? Mountain Creek Offers Timely Break From Cabin Fever, Covid-19 The mountains are alive with the sound of skiers and snowboarders.  New Jerseyans took advantage of this week's winter snowfall -- and a break from COVID-19 worries -- by hitting the trails of Mountain Creek.  The ski resort officially opened for the season on Thursday.  On their webpage Friday, resort operators posted, "What an opening day. Not only are we so excited to get back out on the mountain and enjoy some fresh air but kicking our season off with a powder day was truly something special." "As for the mountain, our groomers took to the hill last night to lay down so…

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by Jon Craig
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REPORT: Newlyweds Don't Remember 'Graphic, Upsetting' Sussex County Assault REPORT: Newlyweds Don't Remember 'Graphic, Upsetting' Sussex County Assault
Report: Newlyweds Don't Remember 'Graphic, Upsetting' Sussex County Assault A pair of newlyweds claimed no memory of a crash and subsequent assault last month on Route 94 in Sussex County, according to a recent report. Allan and Stephanie Grosso of Pine Bush, N.Y., were headed home from Oktoberfest at Mountain Creek on Sept. 21 when the incident occurred outside of a Vernon business, the NJ Herald reports. Stephanie Grosso said she had no memory of being beaten and tossed into traffic and suspected someone may have dropped something in her drink while testifying Monday in Newton before Superior Court Judge Thomas J. Critchley. Critchely, however, called the i…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Morris County Doctor Convicted In Bunny Slope Attack On Boy, 12 Morris County Doctor Convicted In Bunny Slope Attack On Boy, 12
Morris County Doctor Convicted In Bunny Slope Attack On Boy, 12 A jury found Morris County Dr. Samuel Caruthers guilty of stabbing a then-12-year-old boy with a ski pole on a Mountain Creek bunny slope in 2016, reports say. Caruthers, 47 of Mountain Lakes, was found guilty Wednesday of child endangerment, simple assault, a disorderly persons offense and unlawful weapon possession, the New Jersey Herald reports. His attorney intends on filing a motion to overturn the verdict, the report says. The boy sustained a bruised rib and busted lip after being punched several times by the doctor on the mountain, after he accidentally snowboarded into Caruthers' 1…

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by Cecilia Levine